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Bound volume entitled: "A System of Practical Geometry"

Commonplace book of William Lewin

North Redemore Account Book

Mathematics school exercise book of William Scamp

Volume entitled: "Chemistry Lecture Notes"

Autograph Journal and Recipe Book

'The aerial candidates...', an aeronautical play

Account book of the firm of Thomas Farmer & Co., Kennington Green

Credo notebook of Joseph Clement

Collection of letters from Sir Humphry Davy to his family

Notebooks of G.H. Wollaston relating to Thames Tunnel from Rotherhithe to Wapping

Translation in one volume of 'The Art of Metals (Ores) in which is taught the true method of treating by mercury those of gold and silver: the manner of smelting them all and how they are to be refined and separated from one another'

Papers relating to the Thames Driftway and Richard Trevithick's involvement in the project

Collection of letters signed by scientists, physicians and engineers, generally on scientific or professional matters

Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

Letter from George Stephenson to Philip Maddison Regarding Engine Designs

Notebook comprising 'Account of Blaenavon Iron Works'

Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery

Catalogue of new double stars by F.G. W. Struve, annotated copy blonging to J.F.W. Herschel

Volume of plans of mines and mining districts in Mexico

Accounts ledger for Bowling Iron works

Archibald Guillan's book on mathematical theory and its application to practical navigation

Day-book of John Walker, chemist and inventor of the Friction-Match

Collection of letters and accounts relating to Richard Trevithick's patent on a portable high pressure steam engine

Sketchbook, inscribed 'G Cayley 1796'

Volume of extracts on the mines of Minas Geraes

Volume entitled: "Some Account, of the Work's done by Captain John Perry"

Letter from Henry Maudslay to Mr Matthew Murray, Engineer

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

Manuscript entitled: "Catalogue of the Apparatus of Philosophical Instruments, in the Collection of Her Late Majesty Queen Charlotte, at the Observatory at Richmond in Surrey"

Lecture Notes on Chemistry

Volume entitled: "A plan of a Course of Lectures on Arts and Manufactures, More Particularly Such as Relate to Chemistry by William Farish"

Volume entitled: "History of the Framework Knitting and Lace Trades"

Collection of newspaper cuttings relating to coal trade and coastal shipping in north-east England

Collection of letters to Richard Trevithick, mainly concerning the design and efficiency of steam-engines

Notebooks of notes from lectures in Paris 1802-1803

School exercise book of Hugh Hansford, Free School, Gillingham, Dorset

Letter from Henry Booth, company secretary and treasurer of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, to James Loch, Bloomsbury Square, London with a report on the survey of Chat Moss by Thomas Shaw Brandreth

Drawings - the Peel & Williams Phoenix and Soho Foundries

Diary of Robert Stephenson

Letter describing the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway and the death of Sir William Huskisson MP after being run down by the "Rocket"

Autograph letter from William Brunton, Engineer, giving a description of his Steam Horse, Butterley Iron Works

Letter from Leighton Dalrymple, Lieutenant Colonel. Account of his visit to Wakefield and Leeds, including a description and sketch of John Blenkinsop’s Steam Locomotive 'Salamanca'

The Coal Viewer and Engine Builder's Practical Companion by John Curr

Papers of George and Robert Stephenson Regarding the Moreton Rail-Road

Early prints of cotton mills and cotton processes

Digital copy of manuscript of the engineer John Urpeth Rastrick, entitled: Common Place Book, produced in Shropshire

Letter from John Backhouse to his sister describing the opening train on the Stockton & Darlington Railway

Lithograph depicting east view of the cast iron bridge under construction over the River Wear at Sunderland